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      Curriculum, Personal Narrative and the Social Future
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      Curriculum, Personal Narrative and the Social Future book

      ByIvor F. Goodson
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 26 May 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203489345
      Pages 180
      eBook ISBN 9780203489345
      Subjects Education
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      Goodson, I.F. (2014). Curriculum, Personal Narrative and the Social Future (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203489345

      ABSTRACT

      Recent writing on education and social change, and a growing number of new governmental initiatives across Western societies have proceeded in denial or ignorance of the personal missions and biographical trajectories of key public sector personnel. This book stems from an underpinning belief that we have to understand the personal biographical if we are to understand the fate of social and political initiatives.

      In education a pattern has emerged in many countries around the world. Each new government enshrines targets and tests to ensure that teachers at the frontline delivery are ‘more accountable’. Whilst this often provides evidence of symbolic action to the electorate or professional audiences, the evidence at the level of service delivery is often far less impressive. Targets, tests and tables may win wide support from the public, but there are often negligible or even contradictory effects at the point of delivery, enforced by the ignorance or denial of personal missions and biographical mandates. This book locates most of its analysis and discussion at the point of culture clash between centralised dictates, and individual and collective life missions. Whilst the early part of the book considers a range of issues related to school curriculum, the focus on the biographical and life narrative becomes increasingly important as the analysis proceeds.

      Curriculum, Personal Narrative and the Social Future will be of key interest to practising teachers, educational researchers and students on teacher training courses, postgraduate courses and doctoral courses.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |6 pages

      Introduction

      part |2 pages

      PART I

      chapter 1|10 pages

      Curriculum change processes and historical periods

      chapter 2|15 pages

      The context of cultural inventions: learning and curriculum

      chapter 3|11 pages

      Times of educational change: towards an understanding of patterns of historical and cultural refraction

      chapter 4|16 pages

      Curriculum as narration: tales from the children of the colonised

      part |2 pages

      PART II

      chapter 5|14 pages

      The rise of the life narrative

      chapter 6|22 pages

      Exploring the teacher’s professional knowledge: constructing identity and community

      chapter 7|10 pages

      Listening to professional life stories: some cross- professional perspectives

      part |2 pages

      PART III

      chapter 8|18 pages

      All the lonely people: the struggle for private meaning and public purpose in education

      chapter 9|24 pages

      The educational researcher as public intellectual

      chapter 10|13 pages

      Knowledge, personal narrative and the social future

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